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31GUN

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31GUN Proficient

31GUN

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Every year on the freeway stretch between Campbelltown and the Picton/Wollongong exit, the Police set up a large operation at the truck stop around Menangle/Douglas Park

8-10 Police cars, sometimes more, marked and unmarked, the pull over supposedly modified cars and herd them into the truck stop where some fairly heavy handed defecting takes place.

It is centred around people travelling to Summernats which is January 3 til 6, so expect them from new years day on.

They target anything not absolutely stock looking, and patrol both North and South directions.

Even a set of wheels will get you roadsided.

Even if your car is on a trailer, if it has plates on it, you'll get done.

And don't be fooled into taking it off the trailer because they "want to have a look at it".

Best to avoid this stretch of freeway at that time.

GTR-N1 Grand Master

GTR-N1

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So the alternative from Campbelltown would be...

Appin Rd > Princes Hwy Bulli > Illawarra Hwy Albion Park > Macquarie Pass > Bowral > Hume Hwy Sutton Forest?

Or...

Appin Rd > Princes Hwy Bulli > Nowra > Kings Hwy just before Batemans Bay > Clyde Mtn > Braidwood > Canberra?

Is Nowra Rd totally sealed now down to Kings Hwy Braidwood btw?

I may go down to Sussex Inlet for a bit.

FordyR31 Mentor

FordyR31

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There isnt anything anyone can do. Thanks for the tip off Hooks. Ill be heading to Melb on the2nd... Ill be making sure Mums company Santa Fe looks stock lol. Its pretty shit targeting Summer Nats. They complain they want people to go to organised events and not drag and do burnouts on the streets but when an event is organised they try to stop it. Maybe the modded car scene needs to do what taxi drivers and truckies do and park up the CBD for a few hours. Sooner or later they will realise the defecting and impounding isnt working and start to target the problem drivers and not the car.

tweety bird Grand Master

tweety bird

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There isnt anything anyone can do. Thanks for the tip off Hooks. Ill be heading to Melb on the2nd... Ill be making sure Mums company Santa Fe looks stock lol. Its pretty shit targeting Summer Nats. They complain they want people to go to organised events and not drag and do burnouts on the streets but when an event is organised they try to stop it. Maybe the modded car scene needs to do what taxi drivers and truckies do and park up the CBD for a few hours. Sooner or later they will realise the defecting and impounding isnt working and start to target the problem drivers and not the car.

they'll just defect everyone..

jeff Proficient

jeff

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I did learn that a stock gtr exhaust is over the db limit though

not wrong there

the only way to keep an R33 GTR under the limit is putting the R33 GTST on it (after a little cutting, adjusting and welding)

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MBS206 Grand Master

MBS206

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I donated 300 there last year

Nice blokes... Well informed.. Apparently my stock air box was a bov

Noise testing 15 metres from motorway is a tad questionable

I did learn that a stock gtr exhaust is over the db limit though

When I was noise tested (by a real exhaust shop) he was telling me that dependent on the type of location they can remove a certain amount of DBA off the reading, light industrial gets 2DBA they can remove, a motorway would mean they have to remove more!

Frigging idiots!

I can understand them patrolling and RBTing everything, because we all know after you watch some "car action" te spectators nearly always want to be clowns, so they deserve to be done for speeding and drink driving etc, but they really need to train these coppers up some more on what things are!

I'm glad my car looks stock as (only thing different is rims, and they're a factory size and mimic the factory shape, and no I didn't buy them, they were on the car when I got it.)

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donut_kng Experienced

donut_kng

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There isnt anything anyone can do. Thanks for the tip off Hooks. Ill be heading to Melb on the2nd... Ill be making sure Mums company Santa Fe looks stock lol. Its pretty shit targeting Summer Nats. They complain they want people to go to organised events and not drag and do burnouts on the streets but when an event is organised they try to stop it. Maybe the modded car scene needs to do what taxi drivers and truckies do and park up the CBD for a few hours. Sooner or later they will realise the defecting and impounding isnt working and start to target the problem drivers and not the car.

Sure is working unfortunately! How many half decent done up cars so you see out on the road on the weekends these days? Stuff all!

psikazi Enthusiast

psikazi

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Thanks for the heads up, i am going down to mittagong area this weekend, i was gonna take my GTR to give it a good run, but instead i will leave it locked in the garage and take my Prado.

Cheers

Kam

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